January 13, 2016

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner took a shot at "waste" and "cronyism" in public universities Wednesday, telling lawmakers through a surrogate that schools should be more accountable for their spending before the state finds money for tuition grants that Democrats are pushing.

When something happens like I don't know…Xbox Live going down, what do you do? A lot of us run to Twitter to complain about it. Not because our complaints will be heard, but because hot damn sometimes it just feels good. Today, one Xbox Live user was particularly miffed. His name happens to be Snoop Dogg. He had a message for Xbox, the Live team, EA sports, Microsoft's… Read More

(John Hinderaker) Paul has offered thoughts on the release of the U.S. sailors, all of which I agree with. I want to add a few further observations. The day began with Joe Biden touting the president's State of the Union speech on CBS. Near the end of his interview, he was asked about the seizure of American sailors by the Iranians (the sailors by then had been released) and specifically, whether there

The Obama administration rushed Wednesday to portray the swift return of 10 U.S. sailors taken captive a day earlier by Iran as a vindication of the president's diplomatic outreach to Tehran, but a video showing the disarmed, kneeling American sailors being watched by Iranian guards and one of the sailors ...

Earlier this month I was at CES in Las Vegas doing quadruple duty as radio host of my radio show on SiriusXM; as judge and MC of The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards Show; as co-host of a lively karaoke party with AmpMe, and as tech collaborator with HSN. Read More

"Those loans have been disclosed over and over and over again on multiple filings," Sen. Ted Cruz says in response to report in New York Times that he failed to properly disclose a loan from Goldman used toward his 2012 Senate campaign. "If it was the case that they were not filed exactly as the FEC requires, then we'll amend the filings," Cruz, Republican presidential candidate, tells reporters in Dorchester, S.C. "But all of the information has been public and transparent for many years, and t

Silicon Valley should have a stake in the U.S. government's moonshot initiative to cure cancer. President Obama announced this initiative in his last State of the Union address Tuesday night, placing Joe Biden in charge of "Mission Control" for the effort. Biden started reaching out to hundreds of the world's top cancer experts since his son passed away from brain cancer… Read More

Carly Fiorina remains beloved in the eyes of many GOP voters but has squandered the momentum she earned in shining debate performances last summer, and limps into the new year hoping for a last-minute miracle in the presidential primary.

The walking embodiment of the "I'm a PC" guy just discovered that his Apple Watch can make phone calls and he couldn't be more excited :D Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was doing an interview with The Des Moines Register when his Apple Watch started going crazy. USA Today caught a video of Jeb's reaction. "My watch can't be… Read More

Personal finl disclosures Ted Cruz filed with Senate don't show liquidation of assets that would have accounted for all the money he spent on 2012 Republican primary campaign, NYT reports, citing review of disclosures. Disclosures show Cruz, wife obtained in 1H 2012 low-interest loan from Goldman and another from Citibank that eventually totaled to max. of $1m before being paid down later that yr Neither loan appears in reports Ted Cruz for Senate Committee filed with Federal Election Commission

(Steven Hayward) What a great week. First The New Republic deservedly implodes. Now comes the news that Al Jazeera America, formerly Al Gore's Current TV, is folding up. Most of the time Power Line has more active readers than Al Jazeera America had viewers, and we're just a website. Yeah, Al Gore cashed out nicely with some serious fossil fuel money, but it's nice to reflect back, as Twitchy does, about Gore's

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is asking state lawmakers to avoid partisan squabbles but warned the GOP-controlled General Assembly he'd veto any bills on abortion rights or gun control he found objectionable.

The Democratic governor touted his accomplishments and outlined his goals in his State of the ...

Hot on the heels of PushDoctor's $8.2 million Series A, another U.K. startup playing in the digital health app space has picked up funding. Babylon Health, which like PushDoctor, lets you have video consultations with a doctor (and a lot more), has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Investment AB Kinnevik, the Swedish listed entrepreneurial investment. Read More

President Barack Obama touted Nebraska's unemployment rate of less than 3 percent as evidence that America's economy has rebounded under his leadership as he kicked off his post-State-of-the-Union address tour and the final year of his presidency.

It is self-evident that ensuring public safety is a city's job. In a sane world a public official would never choose between reducing sexual assault and reducing drunk driving. Ridesharing policy is increasingly being framed as either/or brinksmanship, presenting a false choice. I reject that polarity, and I urge you to as well. Read More

Ten American sailors that were captured in the Persian Gulf by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday have been set free. The Obama Administration downplayed the dangerous international incident and didn't mention a word about the detained sailors during his State of the Union remarks last night. Secretary of State John Kerry released a statement ...More

President Obama referred to Ukraine as a client state of Russia's in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, eliciting criticism from some U.S. lawmakers and analysts who noted Kiev's independence from Moscow and ongoing battle against Russian-backed separatists.

(Paul Mirengoff) In discussing the radical implications of President Obama's "Affirmative Furthering Fair Housing" rule (AFFH), I typically point to what happened in Westchester County, New York as a sneak preview. But Stanley Kurtz directs our attention to an even more chilling example — Dubuque, Iowa. In Westchester County, Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development forced the local government to build low-income housing in an upscale community and to encourage people

If you enjoy a bit of the old Weed O' Gandalf then you're going to get a kick out of these smoking systems by PrintABowl. This company makes specially -designed smoking paraphernalia that is 3D printed using a ceramic molding method. While the bongs themselves aren't 3D printed – that would be a bit difficult given the state of things – the molds used to make them… Read More